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Nancy Pelosi

The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

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Essay Topics

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Consider Nancy Pelosi’s historic tenure as Speaker of the House. What challenges did she encounter as a woman? How did she navigate these challenges?

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Review Pelosi’s statements about herself and other political figures as leaders. What makes for a good leader? What makes for a bad leader?

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The Art of Power is a political memoir (See: Background). What conventions of the political memoir does Pelosi rely on? In what ways, if any, does she depart from those conventions?